Pleurothallis tragulosa Luer & Hirtz 1996 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl 1859
Photo by Alfonso Doucette Copyright © 2009, and His Flicker website
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name The Javelin Carrying Pleurothallis [refers to the plants habit]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Esmeraldas province of Ecuador at elevations of 700 to 800 meters as a small to medium sized, warm growing, caespitose epiphyte or terrestrial on road banks with slender, erect ramicaul enveloped a tubular sheath below the middle and 2 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly ovate, acute, narrowly rounded at the sessile base leaf that blooms in the winter on a fascile, arising through a narrow spathe, of successively single, flowered inflorescence with a tubular, less than half as long as the pedicel floral bract.
"Disitnguished by the tall, slender ramicauls that bear narrowly ovate leaves and long pedicellate flowers. The dorsal sepal is ovate with seven nerves and the synsepal is lightly smaller. The petals are small, triangular and acute. The lip is transversely ovate." Luer 2005
Synonyms Acronia tragulosa (Luer & Hirtz) Luer 2005; Zosterophyllanthos tragulosus (Luer & Hirtz) Szlach. & Kulak 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Lindleyana 11: 189 Luer & Hirtz 1996 drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 drawing fide;
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